Quotes About Adversity

Adrian McKinty

Is neamhbhuan cogadh na gcarad; má bhíonn sé crua, ní bhíonn sé fada

Your body is a longbow carved from hickory, her father said. Your body is a blade sharpened by tears, her mother said.

What are your initial thoughts, Duffy?" he asked. "It was freezing out there, sir. Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, we had to eat the horses, we're lucky to be alive." "Your thoughts about the victim?

To quote Bugs Bunny, it's mongoose season, and you're the fucking mongoose.

Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice. I understood

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

This is something that I have learned at PA that I would have never learn at home because I have my own room and I'm an only. Nobody has it easy, not even the Great and Tall Blond One

Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.

Did you ever find yourself in a place in life where you had committed to something, and you couldn't make it work?

Will I?" "Grief is never as bad as it is when you first feel it. The trick is to walk with it. Make it a part of who you are. Don't rail against it.

The terrible things that happen to us in this life never make any sense when we're in the middle of them, floundering, no end in sight.

There were times when I cursed the trail and the weather for hours. But after you sulk and consider your options, you eventually realize that you can sit there and cry, or you can walk... It doesn't matter so much if you cry or walk -- I did a lot of both -- but if you turn on your partner, you'll never make it together.

Only through suffering do we learn

He who learns must suffer.

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all. -Cassandra

Pain both ways and what is worse?

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.

Look - can't you see? The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

No man can go through life and reach the end unharmed. Aye, trouble is now, and trouble still to come.

Man must suffer to be wise. Head-winds heavy with past iol Stray his course and cooud his heart; Sorrow takes the blind soul's part-- Man grows wise against his will. For powers who rule from thrones above By ruthlessness commend their love.

The brave heart is called to school itself In slow endurance against Griefs that strike deep into the bosom

We call on the gods, and the gods well know what storms torment us, sailors whirled to nothing. But if we are to live and reach the haven, one small seed could grow a mighty tree -

Temos de suportar com o coração impávido a sorte que nos é imposta e admitir a impossibilidade de fazermos frente à força irresistível da fatalidade.